this was ahmed ghailani. this is a guy, if you remember, that was the terrorist who was responsible for the bombing of the american embassies in tanzania and in kenya. he was later captured in pakistan in 2004 while working for al qaeda preparing false documents facilitating a transfer -- transport of arms to insurgents across the afghan-pakistan border. intelligence shows that ghailani met both bin laden and khalid sheikh mohammed in afghanistan and remained in close association with al qaeda until his capture in 2004. now, this bona fide terrorist will have the privilege of a united states civilian court trial in the united states. ahmed ghailani was just one of 239 detainees housed in the state-of-the-art facility at gitmo. according to the "wall street journal" today, the government official has said that well over 50 detainees have been approved for transfer to other countries and that negotiations were continuing with saudi arabia to take a large group of yemen detainees. attorney general eric holder es

i think they man, ahmed ghailani, should stand trial.f 12 innocent americans died -- and they did -- among 224 people, this man should be on trial. and i think the president was right to bring him to the court for trial. to suggest that he shouldn't be put in a military tribunal, which has had a record, incidentally, over the last seven years, military commissions at guantanamo, seven years, tried three individuals and two have been released, doesn't tell me that it's a good batting record when it comes to dealing with war criminals. i trust the courts of our land, the same courts that convicted ramzi yousef. i trust those courts to give ghailani a fair trial under american law. and i trust at the end of the day that the jury, if it is a jirks will reach its -- my if it is a jury, will reach its decision. but i can tell you this for certain. the suggestion by the minority leader that at some point after this trial mr. ghailani is going to be turned loose in the communities and neighborhoods of america, i don't understand where that's com